FHI 360 Senior Program Officer Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.
FHI 360 Ethiopia looking for “Senior Program Officer”.
Applicants with a Bachelor’s Degree may apply on or before 20th March, 2024.
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization based in North Carolina. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories. Established in 1971, the organization has long managed in projects relating to family planning and reproductive health.
FHI 360 Senior Program Officer Jobs 2024
The FHI 360 has published a job vacancy announcement on 06th March, 2024 for qualified Ethiopia’s to fill in the vacant post of Senior Program Officer to be based in Mekelle, Ethiopia.
| Recruiter | Family Health International (FHI 360) |
| Position | Senior Program Officer |
| Location | Mekelle, Ethiopia |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | Bachelor’s Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum of Five (05) Year’s |
| Application Deadline | 20th March, 2024 |
FHI 360 Job Vacancy 2024
Key Responsibilities and Deliverables:
- Support the project manager and the program officer in facilitating the process of establishing smooth and fulfilling work relationships with host government offices and their implementing arms.
- Design and coordinate the assessment for community’s demand for design initiatives (water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities) and minor rehabilitation works for the selected health facilities.
- Ensure that the project meets the demands of the recipients and offer quality assurance for rehabilitation and IPC at the selected health facilities.
- Preparation of Design (Water CAD, Water Gems), drawings (AutoCAD), BOQ/Cost Estimates, and Tender papers for all design infrastructures.
- Support the preparation of technical training for community handlers in areas such as water quality testing and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain solid connections and channels of communication with relevant local authorities and communities prior to intervention, outlining the function of FHI 360 Community Nutrition and working with them during the project.
- Coordinate with various stakeholders on the ground to ensure that the operations are carried out smoothly, efficiently, and effectively.
- Ensure a timely startup of planned rehabilitation works including IPC and WASH rehabilitation related undertakings.
- Assist the project manager in implementation and oversight of all hardware and any software undertakings in the works.
- Represent FHI 360 Community Nutrition at various levels of WASH platforms including the WASH Cluster and its technical working groups.
- Oversee and provide technical guidance to the program officer in the adoption of high standard construction quality works, as well as ensuring that all health, nutrition, and protection sectors, as well as WASH sector cross cutting issues, are integrated during day-to-day field level exercises.
- Under his/her duty areas of assignment, provide on-the-job and field level mentorship to the Program Officer
- Ensure high quality activity implementation timeline, detail procurement as well as spending plans prepared in the first month of the project period with the good engagement of the other stakeholders.
- Whenever required, the position holder will take the leadership in designing and supporting detail assessments and prepare intervention activities, beneficiaries as well as sectors integration matrixes and follow their implementations with the field team on regular basis.
- Oversight of all related minor rehabilitation undertakings in health facilities.
- Identify infrastructural and IPC problems within health facility settings and come up with technical and financial propositions of how they can be fixed.
- Draft design bills of quantities, specifications, and cost estimates for proposed public health promotion and Environmental health interventions including for hazardous waste managements in health facilities.
- Review and approves the TORs, MEMOs, Attendance, and payment documents for all activities under the PHP component of the project in the first two months of the project and ensure the PR and payments are done timely.
- Work closely with other FHI 360 Community Nutrition units – including health and nutrition, logistics and finance, HR, and administration -to ensure programmatic integrations, effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance.
- Support the Project Manager to ensure effective follow up while tracking the spending’s against the plan to ensure they are implemented within the budget frame and in compliance with FHI 360 and donor requirements.
- Supervise and produce progress reports on implementation of planned basic rehabilitations and infrastructural improvements at the health facility levels.
- Support and guide the Program Officer to ensure close follow up with field assistants, contractors, skilled and unskilled labors, and volunteers in closely and daily following up rehabilitation & WASH related interventions implementation to meet the anticipated quality standards.
Position in Organization:
- Title: Senior Program Officer
- Locations: Mekelle, Ethiopia
- Time type: Full time
- Posted on: Posted Today
- Job requisition id: Requisition – 2023201963
Minimum Requirements:
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent Civil Engineering, Water resource Engineering, Water supply and Sanitation engineering, and any other related technical field from a reputable institution of learning.
- MSc degree (for those with 5 years’ experience) in Civil Engineering, Water resource Engineering, Water supply and Sanitation engineering, and any other related technical field from a reputable institution of learning.
- Project management certification preferred.
Experience:
- MSc degree (for those with 5 years’ experience) in Civil Engineering, Water resource Engineering, Water supply and Sanitation engineering, and any other related technical field from a reputable institution of learning.
- Experience on staff management
Language Skills:
- Fluent in English and strong knowledge of local language and other languages in the country.
How to Apply FHI 360 Senior Program Officer Jobs 2024
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
The Closing Date: 20th March, 2024.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | www.fhi360.org |
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